CORE GATEWAY COLLEGE, INC

Business Education Program

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NSTP-CWTS 1

REFLECTION
PAPER
Submitted by:
Rochelle F. Quinto
Submitted to:
Sir Jefferson Milad
 MODULE 1

After going through the entire lesson of the history of National Service Training Program
(NSTP), I’ve gained an interest in the public and civil affairs of the Philippines where as I’ve
seen and learned the reason and purpose of implementing the said NSTP within the country. It is
to promote and encourage the youth in the nation building where their cooperation and service
might be helpful and useful in case of crisis in order to protect the citizens of their country.
Being able to be part of this program gave me the courage and empowerment that I’m not only a
citizen of my country but I could also be able to help my country overcome the possible
problems we might face in the future. Having that thought led me to the conclusion that my
fellow youth and the succeeding generation of our country should also learn the history of
National Service Training Program and gave them the same knowledge that we have gained
while studying this topic.

In addition, I’ve also learned the importance of patriotism and nationalism of the youth in
one’s country wherein having these two will help the youth find the reason and foothold why we
need to cooperate and be involved in this National Service Training Program and what kind of
importance it weighs in representing the Armed Force of the Philippines all over the world. It
will definitely strengthen our nation not only the armed force of the Philippines but also its
citizen as a whole by having the love and support of the Filipino people in their hometown.

Moreover, I have learned the importance of promoting and protecting the physical,
mental, intellectual and social well-being of the youth wherein this would help the youth to
realize their potential for improving the quality of life by cooperating and involving in the
National Service Training Program. NSTP has the service of helping the youth to be self-reliant
and be fully independent by themselves which helped them to be able to protect their own well-
being which will definitely make them stronger and develop unity for their country. This
program serves as their stepping stone in going out of their comfort zone and let them realize the
quality of life by giving them the reason why we need to participate in a certain activity that will
teach us to defend and protect our country and the citizens of our country. This overall
realization made me come up to the conclusion that we all have the ability to protect our
hometown and our family by only having the love and support for our country as a starter pack to
the continuous battle that we might face in the future.
 MODULE 2

Learning the self-awareness and values development helped me to learn its importance
and great contribution to the human life. The lesson helped me in having a deeper understanding
of who I really am, what kind of person I am, what potentials and skills do I have and how these
things would lead me to my personal development. It’s kind of vague in my part in the reason
why do I need to tackle this lesson since I thought I already know myself but it leads me to the
vital reason why there is a need to have deeper learning regarding the self-awareness and that
this self-awareness will definitely lead us to our values development.

Being aware of our entire well-being would definitely help us know what areas of our
self we need to develop and improve in order to improve our lives. It helped me be aware of my
skills and potentials and that the skills I possess should be continuously practiced and trained in
order to be developed, knowing my strengths and weaknesses which helped me realized that I
could also use my weakness as a strength if I would want to, that it is not recognized as weakness
for no reason, the weaknesses I have will motivate me to be better and be stronger as a person,
improve my decision-making skills that I shouldn’t just trust on my guts in processing my
decisions in life, but be more rational and balance the things well in order to come up with the
best decisions in life and that I could motivate myself well without the help of other people, that
in the end, it is only myself that I have who would support and encourage me sincerely and that I
should be self-reliant. These things helped me realized the things I need to improve in my self in
order to improve the quality of my life as a human being.

To sum it all up, this lesson gave me a big impact in realizing the importance of knowing
ourselves and be aware of our personality, needs, wants, habits, values and emotions as well as
our strengths and weaknesses, but knowing ourself alone wasn’t enough there should be a values
or personal development in ourselves in order to improve the quality of our life and in order to
learn more about our well-being as a person. This kind of realization and treatment to ourself
won’t be compensated by everything seeing that it involves ourselves and not just some certain
things that could be neglected in life. Having a clear and full understanding of ourselves is a
power that could easily help us to carry ourselves freely and independently without any problems
or confusions because we would already know what is the best and right for us and what are the
things that could be influential, helpful and useful in our lives.
 MODULE 3

After reading and learning the entire module regarding leadership, I’ve learned how to
define and apply the importance of a good leadership in my life and I actually am able to relate
my experiences in leadership wherein I have learned that I still have a long way to go if I want to
become a good and effective leader. Being a good leader has a lot of requirements and not just
being able to lead alone because you won’t become an effective leader if you don’t have most of
the characteristics of a good leader such as having self-confidence, analytical ability, knowledge,
personal integrity or honesty, desire to lead, high level of personal drive, charisma, creativity and
flexibility. These things are the characteristics that we should possess in order to become a good
and effective leader to a certain group of people or the people around us.

I have learned the various bases of power related to leadership which includes legitimate
power which is the power over a person in lower positions within the organization, reward power
which is the power that gives rewards to anybody who follows order or request, coercive power
which is the power where a person compels another to comply with other through threats or
punishment, referent power which is the power where a person can get compliance from another
because latter would want to be identifies with the former and the last but not the least the expert
power, which is the power that experts provide specialized information regarding their specific
lines of expertise. These bases of power should be possessed by the leaders in order to achieve
their goals and objectives in a certain organization. Aside from the bases of power, I also learned
the nature of leadership that leadership is the process of influencing and supporting others to
work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives and the important attitudes of a leader such as
critical and experimental outlook, commitments to long-term planning, interest in material
things, desire for change, concern for time and punctuality, respect for accuracy and willingness
to delegate authority.

All in all, I’ve learned the various traits and attitudes of a good leader, the definition and
nature of leadership and the bases of power that a leader should possess in order to become a
good and effective leader. These things gave me the knowledge regarding the leadership that a
student like me should know in order to be aware, polish our skills and potentials and apply the
traits and attitudes that were mentioned above as a student and as a person seeing that we are all
a leader of our own roller-coaster life and we should be a good and effective leader of our lives.